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Ruchir Sharma

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Ruchir Sharma is Head of Emerging Markets and Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.With more than $20 billion of assets under management, Ruchir is one of the world's largest investors. He typically spends one week every month in a different emerging market where he meets leading politicians, top CEOs and other local characters.Ruchir has been a writer for even longer than he has been an investor. He started writing at the age of 17 for India's largest economic daily, The Economic Times and is now a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal, The Financial...

Erik Larson

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Erik Larson is the author of nine books and one audio-only novella. His latest book, The Demon of Unrest, is a non-fiction thriller about the five months between Lincoln's election and the start of the Civil War. Six of his books became New York Times bestsellers. Two of these, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz and Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, both hit no. 1 on the list soon after launch. His chronicle of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, The Devil in the White City, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award...